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Curienite & Mounanaite

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Curienite & Mounanaite

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Description
Locality: 
Mounana Mine, Franceville, Haut-Ogooué Province, Gabon
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.9 × 0.8 × 0.4 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small specimen with some tiny crystals of curienite scattered on matrix of crusty, brown mounanaite. Both type locality species!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Curienite

Formula: 
Pb(UO2)2(VO4)2·5H2O
Strunz: 
4.HB.15
Hardness: 
3.0
Type Locality: 
Mounana Mine (Mouana Mine), Franceville, Haut-Ogooué Province, Gabon

Mounanaite

Formula: 
PbFe3+2(VO4)2(OH,F)2
Strunz: 
8.CG.15
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Mounana Mine (Mouana Mine), Franceville, Haut-Ogooué Province, Gabon

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